The purpose of this thread is for recording the season’s day to day activity at the Manton Bay nest thus freeing up the Rutland Osprey Project 2017 thread for general news on all the other birds, nests and projects.
For anyone new following Manton Bay, Maya and Blue 33(11) have been the resident pair for the last two years and to date have raised six chicks. More details about the nest and a table of the breeding data can be found here. Last season Maya returned on the 21 March and Blue 33(11) arrived a few days later on the 27 March.
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I am sure I speak for us all in wishing Maya and Blue 33(11) a safe journey home and for another successful season at Manton Bay.
"Birds are, quite simply, little miracles - and as such they require care and consideration."
Magnus Ullman
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I don't know ... I go out for a couple of hours and it's taken me ages to catch up with everything! Fantastic news - welcome back to both of them. They are certainly not wasting any time!
Blue33 was just on 'n off stickless:
IMAGICAT
But he (out of the corner of my eye) just brought a clod(?).
33(11) is now at work.
Inspected the nest, flew off and returned with some soft furnishings
Off quickly and has just returned with more.
This is going to be a comfy, cosy nest :-)
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Hi Scylla .. were you recording earlier and if so, did you get 33 and Maya's arrivals?
33 has just arrived with a fish and cam zoomed in. Poor thing is still alive!
33 gets tucked in
I'm all over the place so I hope am not duping too badly.
Chasing unknown intruder:
FISH!
Cams are in better sync right now:
Thank you for confirmation of the "clod", KAREN :)
33 has now flown with his fish.
Well at least we know that Maya and 33 have eaten today.
Looking forward to the blogs tonight. SYL